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In QAEES, BANK PROTECTION AND RELATED DEVCES.

J. FRIEDMAN.

PROTECTING FABRIC. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30. win.

Patented July 15, 1919.

IN VEIV TOR /ark fi'ieoman XML THE COLUMBIA PLANDGRAFH co., WASHINGTON, n, c.

JACK FRIEDMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROTECTING FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Application filed September 30, 1918. Serial No. 256,169.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACK FRmDMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Protecting Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a protecting fabric adapted to be made into jackets and various other articles of apparel, whereby the wearer is protected, at the parts covered witlr the fabric from gun shot, bayonet or similar wounds. Moreover, the construction of the fabric is such as to render it sanitary, water-proof, gas-proof and non-combustible. The fabric possesses the further pronounced advantage of being light, thereby enabling the garments to be Worn in comfort and without any undue burden as to weight.

While garments made from the fabric are particularly adapted for the use of soldiers and sailors, it will be manifest, that such garments can be advantageously used, if desired, by policemen and others who are eX- posed to the dangers of the character above referred to.

Speaking generally, the garment, from a structural standpoint, embodies a plurality of aluminum plates, preferably 3, forming a base for the fabric, and on the outer face of each of the exposed plates are built up in succession sections of wood pulp, in a particular manner, a layer of oiled fabric and a further layer of wood pulp, the whole being then incased in suitable fabric, such as canvas.

Features of the invention, other than those adverted to, as well as the advantages thereof, will be apparent from the hereinafter detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated one practical form of the invention, but the construction shown therein is to be understood as illustrative only, and not as defining the limits of the invention.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a transverse section through the bottom of the garment; and

Fig. 2isaplan View, broken away in parts, so as to show the different layers of material, entering into the construction of the fabric.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 2 and 3 represent three aluminum plates, provided with suitable alining perforations 4, for the purpose hereinafter described, said plates being secured together, at their edges in any suitable manner, as by rivets 5. The plate 1, having its outer face positioned toward the front of the fabric, is preferably of a 22 Brown & Sharp gage, while plates 2 and 3 may be somewhat lighter and preferably of a 20 gage. Secured to the outer face of plate 1, and the exposed face of plate 3, are relatively small compact lumps or masses of wood pulp 6, preferably in the form of wood pulp wool, a well known commercial product, said masses being secured to the aluminum plates by means of cords or threads 7 alternately laced or threaded through the perforations in the aluminum plates. A flexible sheet of oiled fabric 8, which is normally water-proof and has been rendered non-combustible by any suitable treatment, is laid on the outer or front faces of the masses of wood pulp, and secured in position in the manner hereinafter described. JuX- taposed on the exposed faces of the oiled fabric is a layer of wood pulp 9, preferably wood pulp wool, whereupon the structure thus assembled is incased in a covering of fabric 10, which may have been so treated as to render it water-proof, germ-proof and non-combustible, in any of the well known: ways. The fabric may be stitched on its exposed edges and the stitching may be made to extend through the layer of wood pulp 9 and the oiled fabric 8, thereby securing them into position.

The wood pulp wool, particularly in the form of compact masses described, serves as an eflicient, somewhat yielding bumper, and, conjointly with the other elements of the structure results in a bullet and bayonetproof garment, and one of a very practical character, which, in practice, has been proven to possess all the advantages herein claimed for it. The fabric may be made up in any desired sizes, and the pieces therein assembled to form any desired garment, depending, more particularly, on its intended purposes.

While the garment possesses the advan tages embodied in the metallic resisting medium, the aluminum plates employed donot add undue weight to the garment, and, more over, by employing a plurality of relatively thin plates, the flexibility of the fabric is preserved. The layer of wood pulp wool 9 may, if desired, be replaced by compact masses of wood pulp, such as are employed adjacent to the aluminum plates.

It will be understood that mechanical and formal changes may be made in the structure described, such as the substitution of equivalents, Without departing from the spirit or substance of the invention, the

scope of which is commensurate with the ap ended claims.

aving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to cover by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric of the class described embodying a plurality of perforated aluminum plates, compacted masses of wood pulp secured to the exposed faces of said plates, a waterproof, non-combustible fabric positioned on the projecting surfaces of the masses of wood pulp, a layer of wood pulp exterio-rly of said water-proof fabric, and a casing of suitable material.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric of the class described embodying a plurality of perforated aluminum plates secured together at their edges, a protecting covering of wood pulp on the exposed faces of the aluminum plates, an oiled fabric adjoining the wood pulp, additional wood pulp adjacent the exposed faces of the oiled fabric, and a suitable fabric for incasing the specified structure.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric of the class described embodying a plurality of aluminum plates, compacted, yielding material, divided into relatively small sections, positioned adjacent the exposedfaces of said plates, and an incasing material envelopmgthe said structure.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a

fabric of the class described embodying a terial on the exposed face of said fabric, and

an incasing material enveloping the said structure.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric of the class described embodying a plurality of metallic plates, compacted masses of wood pulp secured to the exposed faces of said plates, a water-proof, non-combustible fabric positioned on the projecting surfaces of the masses of wood pulp, a layer of wood pulp exteriorly of said water-proof M fabric, and a casing of suitable material.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

J AGK FRIEDMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

